Redefining Life Insurance Standards?

Call AXA life insurance customer service sometime at 800-877-6810 and hear,”Welcome to AXA Life Service Center WHERE WE CONTINUE TO REDEFINE STANDARDS”. The question immediately comes to mind for me, knowing the track record of AXA, wouldn’t they be...

OK! Let’s Try This The Old Fashioned Way!

I think I’m finally coming to grips with the fact that the life insurance learning curve isn’t really a curve. It’s more the path of a tether ball. It goes round and round, changing speed, direction and attitude with each full turn and then, BANG, it...

Is It Possible To Do Worse Than Guaranteed?

How appropriate that when I looked up the definition of guarantee I not only got what I expected, but it was a bit like opening a life insurance fortune cookie, “provide a formal assurance or promise, especially that certain conditions shall be fulfilled...

Never Let Your Life Insurance Lapse Accidentally!

I just got off the phone with a guy who missed the end of the grace period on his $1 million life insurance policy by 3 days. He called and asked for forgiveness and was told that he could fill out a reinstatement application and, if approved, the policy would be...

Is Genworth Life Screwing Loyal Customers?

Hopefully that got your attention if you have a Genworth Life or First Colony “Colony series” term life insurance policy. The company had to make a business decision about their low cost super competitive term conversion product, the Genguard no lapse...

Thinking Term Conversion? Think Quick!!

Look! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Naw, it’s just that Hinerman guy yelling about the life insurance conversion sky falling again. But in my defense consider these events and then consider listening this time. 1. Protective Life did away with their no...

The Life And Death Of Life Insurance Conversions, Part 1

If you would have told me 10 years ago that I would be writing a blog talking about the end of one of the most important features of a term life insurance policy, the ability to convert to a permanent life insurance policy, I would have probably laughed at the idea....

Why I Still Don’t Trust Indexed Universal Life!

Two and a half years ago, when indexed universal life insurance seemed to be taking over the insurance landscape, I spent considerable time studying the products and then posted my thoughts in this forum. In particular I took great exception to the fact that agents...

Scooped By Wall Street Journal?

For months, no years now I have been writing about and telling clients about the best permanent product on the life insurance market and how, if they drug their feet long enough considering the purchase, a day would come when they would look back and say, “Dang!...

We Don’t Have Four More Years. Act Now On Life Insurance!

Whether there is anything to the Mayan calendar that predicts the end of the world next month or not, there is one thing that is an absolute life insurance fact. Because of actions by the NAIC, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, with the strict...